A combined Flow-Injection-Analyzer with an Ion Chromatography (FIA-IC) system for emerging environmental research with complex-matrix

UBC土木工程和化学生物工程环境小组的研究人员正在申请Lachate的QuikChem 8500系列2流动注射分析（FIA）系统，以取代1994年购买的经常发生故障和过时的单通道FIA仪器（Quickchem FIA+ 8000系列）。新系统结合了FIA和IC（离子色谱）两种分析方法。FIA仪器有四个通道，这将使我们能够量化和分析百万分之一水平的多种离子。集成的IC模块将提供巨大的优势，因为它可以同时测量十亿分之一的无机和有机阳离子/阴离子浓度，根据浓度水平选择任意一个模块，而无需重复分析。这将大大增加我们的研究产出。这种替代仪器对于增强我们在科学和工程环境研究中发现和创新的能力至关重要，可以在具有挑战性的复杂基质背景下处理新出现的污染物，包括几种类型的采矿、市政和工业废水以及受污染的饮用水。该仪器对于UBC研究人员继续为环境科学和工程做出前沿贡献至关重要。它将促进广泛的研究活动，在这些活动中，通常需要定量化学分析来支持关于天然水、矿井排水、城市径流、废水、渗滤液、沉积物、土壤、污泥和工业副产品的研究。

Researchers in the Environmental Groups of Civil Engineering and Chemical-Biological Engineering at UBC are applying for a Lachate's QuikChem 8500 Series 2 Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) System to replace a frequently-broken-down and obsolete one-channel FIA instrument (Quickchem FIA+ 8000Series), purchased in 1994. The new system combines two analysis methods FIA integrated IC (Ion Chromatography). The FIA instrument has four channels, which will allow us to quantify and analyze multiple species of ions at the parts per million level. The integrated IC module will provide great advantages as it will enable simultaneous measurement of inorganic and organic cation/anion concentrations at the parts per billion level, by selecting either module, depending on the concentration level, without having to repeat the analysis. This will significantly increase our research output. This replacement instrument is essential to enhance our capability to discover and innovate in environmental research in sciences and engineering, tackling contaminants of emerging concern in challenging complex matrix backgrounds, including several types of mining, municipal and industrial wastewater, and contaminated drinking water. The instrument is critical for UBC researchers to continue to make leading-edge contributions to environmental sciences and engineering. It will facilitate a broad spectrum of research activities, where quantitative chemical analyses are routinely required supporting studies on natural water, mine drainage, urban run-off, wastewater, leachates, sediments, soils, sludges and industrial by-products.